English book · The Road to Paradise

The Road to Paradise

English book, p. 8

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

he will have the pleasure of actually experiencing it. Today, he is blessed with peace of mind; tomorrow he will experience this peaceful life in his external world also. Today he has the full satisfaction of conviction at the intellectual level, tomorrow he will find an opportunity to live in the pleasures and comforts of practical life. Today he is living in a world of limitations, tomorrow he will find an unlimited world in which to live forever, in total freedom. Today he finds paradise in the intellectual sense, tomorrow he will find it in the practical sense. Indeed, there is nothing greater than this for man. In the perfect world of nature the imperfect human world appears to be a contradiction. Paradise puts an end to this contradiction. Paradise signifies perfect world of eternal comforts and pleasures for man, a world which is invested with a meaning, far greater even than that immanent in the natural world. Perhaps it is this divine plan which has thus been alluded to by Jesus Christ in these words: Pray to God in these words: Our Father in Heaven, hallowed be your name, Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. (Matthew: chapter 6) The question “Who am I?” is asked by everyone,

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